Thanks a lot, it worked :) On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 7:00 PM ckim wrote: > Hi! this one is easy :) > For printing pointer in kernel space, you should use %px not %p as format > specifier. I heard this is for security reason(?). > Chan Kim > > 내 Galaxy에서 보냄 > > > -------- 원본 이메일 -------- > 발신: wuzhouhui > 날짜: 21/8/19 오후 9:17 (GMT+09:00) > 받은 사람: Lloyd , kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > 제목: Re: kmalloc - Address is not consecutive > > > > On 8/19/21 6:54 PM, Lloyd wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to print the address of consecutive locations in a > > memory allocated using kmalloc. It prints non contiguous addresses! I > > tried with kmalloc_array, and normal array on stack, I got the same > > result. May I know the reason? The code fragment for array and result > > are given below. > > > > uint8_t MyArray[100]={'0'}; > > printk(KERN_INFO "\nAddress is-> %p\n",&MyArray[0]); > > printk(KERN_INFO "\nAddress is-> %p\n",&MyArray[1]); > > printk(KERN_INFO "\nAddress is-> %p\n",&MyArray[2]); > > > > > > [ 8684.613909] Address is-> 00000000b3330991 > > [ 8684.613914] Address is-> 000000000519068c > > [ 8684.613915] Address is-> 00000000e448ca76 > > > Quoted from Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst: > > A raw pointer value may be printed with %p which will hash the address > > before printing. The kernel also supports extended specifiers for > printing > > pointers of different types. > So the address printed neither logical nor physical address. > > > Thanks a lot, > > Lloyd > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kernelnewbies mailing list > > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >